Gut Feelings: Probiotics and Mental Health

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DESCRIPTION: We've known our mental state can affect our gut flora, but might our good bacteria be affecting our mental state?

This closes out my 4-part video series on the latest in probiotic science. I started with the two most established indications for their use in Preventing and Treating Diarrhea with Probiotics (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preve..., then moved onto a more speculative use in Preventing the Common Cold with Probiotics? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preve..., and then offered practical advice on how to best take probiotic supplements in my last video, Should Probiotics Be Taken Before, During, or After Meals? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/shoul....

The colon removal story reminds me of the mastectomies they used to do for breast pain (Plant-Based Diets For Breast Pain http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant....

Why might the vegetarian diet alone have improved mood? Check out my videos Plant-Based Diet & Mood (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant...) and the follow-up Improving Mood Through Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/impro...) as well as my serotonin series starting with Human Neurotransmitters in Plants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/human....

More on treating chronic fatigue syndrome in:

• A Treatment for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/a-tre...)
• Fibromyalgia vs. Vegetarian & Raw Vegan Diets (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fibro...)
• Fibromyalgia vs. Mostly Raw & Mostly Vegetarian Diets (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fibro...)

What else might our good bacteria be doing for us? They may be helping with weight control (Fawning Over Flora http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fawni... and Gut Flora & Obesity http://nutritionfacts.org/video/gut-f...) and serving up anti-cancer compounds! (Flax and Fecal Flora http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flax-... and Sometimes the Enzyme Myth Is True http://nutritionfacts.org/video/somet....

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/gut-f... and he'll try to answer it!

Image Credit: KayVee.INC, Père Ubu & NaustvikPhotography.com via Flickr; and Bonkers Institute.

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